I don't know how often this story will be updated. I have a great idea for it and a lot of notes but because of that I want to make it as good as I can.

Supernatural Detective

Onmyoji- specialists in magic and divination. Their court responsibilities ranged from tasks such as keeping track of the calendar, to mystical duties such as divination and protection of the capital from evil spirits. They could divine auspicious or harmful influences in the earth, and were instrumental in the moving of capitals. It is said that an onmyōji could also summon and control shikigami.

Tsukune Aono closed the book he was reading and yawned. The movement sent a twinge of pain through his side. The day before he had been man handled by a delinquent named Saizou Komiya. He actually wouldn't have been surprised about being picked on in high school, the problem was this wasn't a normal high school. He had somehow ended up at Youkai Gakuen, and the bully in question had been a monstrel.

Tsukune couldn't help but look back on the last two days with joy though, despite the thrashing at the hands of a 15 foot tall monster. He hadn't expected to get into any high school after he failed his exams. But here he was at a school, and with a friend. His first day he had met a cute girl and befriended her. Of course the down side being she was a vampire and the reason he befriended her was because she had sucked his blood. She wasn't bad though, she had even saved him from the Monstrel when he accidentally pulled the Rosario that sealed her powers off.

After the fight with Saizou though Tskune had gone to the library to look for a book on monsters to know what he was up against. After several minutes of searching in the fantasy section he had a thought made him feel stupid. A quick trip to the non-fiction section had revealed books on monster races next to all the cultural books. One however had caught his eye, the Big Book of Youkai, the book that now sat on his desk.

The book was an encyclopedia really, almost big enough that he had to carry it with two arms. It was exactly what he had needed though. The book covered every monster he could think of and many many more. Youkai Gakuen's only human student had started at the front of the book and made it all the way to Harpy before he had fallen asleep. Even then he only got about 3 hours of sleep before he had gotten up early to read some more before school. Thinking about the amount of sleep caused Tsukune to look over and realize he was going to be late. He grabbed several pieces of toast and rushed out the door.

Tsukune stopped as soon as he caught sight of his friend and resident vampire, Moka Akashiya. She hadn't caught sight of him yet and he let himself admire her from a distance. He had never thought he would ever be able to talk to a girl as cute as Moka in his life, but here he was her only friend. She turned and caught sight of him, smiling widely which caused him to blush at the thought of being caught staring.

"Tsukune." She called out skipping over.

"Hi Moka." She smiled at his greeting before sniffing and getting very close to him.

"You smell delicious Tsukune." Moka said warning Tsukune of the assault to come. He tensed up and soon enough he felt her fangs sink into his neck. After a minute or so of withstanding the looks of his fellow students at the moans that came from the pink haired girl at his side, Moka licked the puncture wounds to seal them before stepping back."Your blood is delicious. I could really get addicted."

"Thanks... I guess." Tsukune rubbed the back of his head. Not sure if he liked the idea of her being addicted to him. On one hand she would always need him in an intimate way, but on the other he would probably get bit more often.

"Come on we are going to be late for school." Moka said dragging him behind her with her enhanced strength. It didn't take long to get to class and as soon as Moka dropped his hand to take her seat Tsukune rubbed his shoulder to make sure it was still in place. Being friends with a super strong vampire certainly had its disadvantages.

Class went fairly easily considering it was the third day. Roll call, followed by a few easy lessons about being human, and the school. It was all rather boring. It wasn't until the teacher announced what they would be doing for the afternoon that everyone got excited.

"Club participation is required to learn about being human. We will be having a Club Fair in which you can check out the different clubs, and then after lunch you will be meeting with your club." Nekonome-sensei announced to the excited class. Tsukune chuckled at the teachers tail flitting behind her. For a role model teaching students how to be human she wasn't in human form very often.

"Also don't forget to check out the Newspaper club." She added her ears and nose twitching in happiness at the thought of recruiting for her club. The students began filing out talking excitedly about what clubs they wanted to join. Tsukune was beginning to stand up when he felt a hand on his arm.

He looked up to find Moka smiling nervously. "What types of clubs do you think there are." She wondered aloud. Tsukune stood up letting her take his arm.

"Probably sports clubs and some arts clubs mostly." Tsukune pondered the idea for a moment. It seemed like the clubs would all be similar to human clubs. After the week he had been experiencing he knew better. "and probably a bunch of weird clubs."

He quickly found out how true his thought had been. After watching some student set the Chemistry club stand on fire with his experiment, which he claims worked perfectly, Tsukune realized that the idea of this school trying to pass off as anything close to human was a fools dream. Especially since it wasn't like the staff even tried. They had put the werewolf and vampire club stands right next to each other. None of the vampires were Super Vampires like Moka though so Tsukune thought maybe the danger wouldn't be too extreme, though he quickly vacated that part of the school just in case.

He noticed that some of the students were quite obviously not in perfect human form, as their necks would be a foot long or they had one eye, but no one was perfect. Even the best disguises had hints that they were monsters. Moka wasn't perfect even with her rosary as she quite obviously had fangs. As Moka and Tsukune split up so she could go look at a flower arranging club he began to observe the students around him.

The first one he noticed was a girl with a shirt that showed off her shoulders. He knew that the school had a uniform but that it was optional due to the fact that many monsters were uncomfortable in certain things. The next thing he noticed was several feather shaped marks on her back but it wasn't until she turned around that he knew what she was. Her eyes were much bigger than usual and reminded him of his pet parakeet when he was a kid. She was obviously some sort of bird like Youkai. Crow's Youkai were high on the list of Avian monsters. She could have been from another country though. Tsukune had read about an African monster called the Roc, creatures with human bodies but Bird heads and wings.

The second student he watched was sitting with the baseball club. The boy had a red tinge to his skin, almost as if he had a sunburn. His nose was also rather long and pointy looking. If Tsukune would have to guess he would have said the boy was a Tengu.

Tsukune was suddenly surprised from his observations by a girl stepping out in front. She had on a bikini with a wrap around her waist. Tsukune looked over to see the swimming club stall."I'm the swimming club captain, Ichinose Tamao. Why don't we swim together."

He started thinking about the water monsters he had learned about. Kappas and Krakens came to mind first. He noticed a hint of sea water and decided against Kappas as they preferred fresh water. He noticed her bright hair and figure, those sorts of things didn't change much with transformations. She was starting to look at him with a predatory gaze. It wasn't until she tossed her hair in annoyance that he realized what she was.

While he had been observing her she had grown annoyed. She wanted him to join the club so she could prey on him. He didn't seem interested in the club though. The club captain was used to men staring at her though, it was how she lured them to her lair after all, but he wasn't looking at her perversely. She stepped forward to get close to him and try to use her feminine wiles on him. He stepped back though making her angry.

"Well do you want to swim with us?" She asked tossing her hair back. She really wanted him, he smelled so delicious. When she tossed her hair back though she saw his eyes widen.

"Mermaid." He ground out bringing his arms up defensively at the sight of scales on her neck just under her hair.

The Mermaid growled in annoyance as the boys around her club stall backed up quickly. She noticed a ring of students now surrounded them.

"Well now the rest of my prey has escaped, I guess I will just have to drag you down with me." She growled opening her mouth inhumanly to reveal rows of sharp fangs. She wasn't too strong on land but Tsukune didn't seem all that strong or willing to fight.

The human boy though was too frightened to think. He had read the night before about what Mermaids did to their prey. If only he could have kept his fat mouth shut he could have just told her he didn't do well in water and left. Now she wanted compensation for her lost meal, and he was on the menu. He fell back as she lunged forward, her jaws clacking shut just inches away form his pain in his back from his landing didn't even phase him as he was sure he was going to die soon anyway. He could see Moka stuck outside the ring of students, trying to force her way through so he could get to her Rosary. His eyes closed as the Mermaid prepared to lunge again.

He opened them back up when he heard a scream though. Looking up he saw a student in a long brown trench coat and a fedora. What surprised him though was the sight of the Mermaid on the ground convulsing.

"Your pretty observant kid. But sometimes its how you use your reasoning skills that matters." The student said. "You figured out she was a mermaid but you only thought what that meant for you when she attacked. What about what that means for her."

Tsukune looked confused until the student held his hand out to reveal a tazer in his hand.

"Water being, she is weak to electricity." The boy said.

Tsukune thought back and remembered that was one of the mermaids weaknesses he had read about. He grew annoyed with himself, he had read about monsters to survive, not to be scared of them. He looked back at the student to find him poking the whimpering form of the Swim Club Captain. He turned back and put his tazer in his pocket.

The student wore a pair of black pants and a white button up with a black tie underneath his coat. His hair was the color of sand, and his eyes were light brown. He looked rather bland, except for the fact that his face was very angular and hard, like something chiseled from stone.

"Your smart kid, but you need to learn how to use it. I want to help." Tsukune looked at the student warily. "Don't get your panties in a knot. You would do well in my club, the Detectives club. Think about it and if your up for it join me in Building 27 after lunch for the club meeting."

The student turned and walked through the thinning crowd. As soon as he broke the ring around them Moka slipped through the crack to kneel by Tsukune.

"Are you ok Tsukune?" She asked worriedly.

"Yeah I'm fine." He answered standing up. He saw her give him a disbelieving look."I'm sure. I feel fine."

"Well did you find a club you wanted to join?" She asked.

He thought about what the boy had said. Tsukune knew there weren't many more clubs to look at and he wasn't too enthusiastic about them being any more normal than the rest."Maybe. What about you."

"I want to join the Newspaper Club. It sounds like fun. I always liked to write and Nekonome-sensei is in charge of it. Why don't you join with me." Moka said. Tsukune thought it but knew he didn't like to write that much.

"No I think I'm going to join the Detectives club." He answered deciding to take the boy up on his offer.

"Oh... do you want me to join with you." Moka asked nervously looking at him. Tsukune laughed and put his hand on her shoulder to reassure her.

"No that is fine, join the Newspaper club and have fun doing what you want. If it makes you happy then that is great, I don't want you to feel like you have to follow me around all the time. Live your life the way you want to." Tsukune said.

"Are you sure."

"Yes. We can still be friends even if we are in different clubs. Besides maybe you will find a female friend too." He smiled at the happiness on her face. God knows he was gonna need a male friend or he was gonna blow his brains out from the estrogen all the time.

"Thank you." Moka said hugging him. She pulled back blushing but he couldn't tell if it was from the hug or something else. "Let's go get lunch."

He started to sweat a bit as she looked at his jugular for a second before turning to hurry off. Definitely the second one.

After lunch the two friends split up and Tsukune found himself walking to building 27. He had to look at the school map a few times but he eventually found it. The school was actually not just a high school. That was only a third of the campus, the Youkai Gakuen also supported a Vocational school and a University as well. The other two were totally separate from the High school several miles down the road, but they had all once been part of the same area. When the schools had grown too large they had split, but the High school hadn't yet grown enough to take up the entirety of the area that had once housed all three. As such there were many empty or semi full buildings. Building 27 was actually a large classroom sized 2 story building completely separate from any other building. It could have passed for a small house even.

Inside Tsukune found a much better room than he had been expecting. Beside the door was a coat rack with a recognizable trench coat. Next to that was a couch pushed up into the corner of the room with a coffee table in front of it. Along the wall right on Tsukune's left was another couch and then several filing cabinets. The back wall was covered by equal parts window on the left and a small table on the right. Above the small table was a cork board with several papers. A white board on wheels stood against the wall opposite the second couch and in front of a door. A second door was further down the wall next to the low table on the far side of the room from Tsukune. The most noticeable thing though was a desk centered between the window and the low table with a pair of chairs in front of it. Behind it, was the man that had saved Tsukune from the Mermaid.

"Ah Tsukune I'm glad you made it, come in come in." The man said pulling his feet off the desk and standing up to gesture to the chairs in front of him. "Take a seat please. Would you like something to drink? Coffee perhaps, or maybe a soda."

"A soda if you have it." Tsukune said taking his seat while the man leaned over to the mini fridge under the low table behind his desk to pull out a coke. Tsukune thanked him for it and took a sip. He watched as the man across the desk took a flask out of his jacket and took a swig.

"Well I guess we should get this meeting started." The man said stowing his flask.

"What about the other members." Tsukune asked looking around to make sure he hadn't missed anyone hiding in the corners.

"We are it. Most clubs require you have at least three members but I convinced the Chairmen that this was a mentor and student type club and he agreed. First off I would like to introduce myself. I am Ken Onitei, and the Youkai Gakuen detective." The boy said holding out his hand. Tsukune leaned across the desk to shake it.

"I am.."

"Tsukune Aono, I know." The boy said leaning back. "You are a freshman. You got in a fight with Saizou Komiya, a monstrel, on your first day. You are friends with Moka Akashiya, a vampire, you are human, and you live in room 321 of the freshman dorms.

"How..."

"Did I know. Easy the same way you knew that Ichinose was a mermaid, deduction. Well and a little detective work. The fight with Saizou is no secret the word is all over campus, as well as Moka's true form. You have a perfect human disguise as far as I can tell, something I have only found in two men and both of them had been doing it for 20 years or more. You have no signs of Youkai which means either you have so little that it is easy to hide, or you are a genius at hiding it, or you are human. As for your room number, I would watch my back if I were you. Several boys have decided they have a vendetta against you for monopolizing the schools cutest girl." The man said leaning back.

"I see." Tsukune started to look for exits. If this man knew he was a human then he was going to need to escape quickly. This was probably a trap.

"Oh don't worry, I don't care that you are human. I invited you here because of your powers of deduction. You have impressed me, and I needed to find an apprentice to take over the club when I'm gone. You are perfect. The fact that me teaching you might keep you safe in a school full of monsters is just the added bonus." The boy said waving off the humans worries. Tsukune still wasn't so sure.

"So how do I know your not going to eat me." He asked causing the man to laugh.

"I'm a rare monster. We aren't powerful. We don't eat humans, and we don't fight." Ken explained.

"What type monster is that." Tsukune felt a little better. Ken seemed honest and friendly. He had even saved him earlier that day.

"You might want to avoid asking that question, some monsters don't take to kindly to it and others are embarrassed. It can get you killed or alienated." Ken said shaking his head. "But I don't have a problem telling you."

Tsukune felt guilty for asking something considered so private. He had forgotten in his excitement at meeting a friendly monster that Tsukune had thought a legend just a few days before. Well and a little bit of fear that he was going to get eaten. He didn't want to make his new friend upset.

"We have many names, gossip monsters is the more derogatory, living statue is the most physically correct but none of them truly capture what we are. To really understand us you have to realize how we came about." Ken said leaning back and looking at the ceiling. Tsukune got comfortable as his upperclassman told his story.

"The first of my kind was a statue next to a news board. Like all monsters some force, some energy changed the statue. Some say it was the power of the words spoken in front of the news board, others say it was the emotions stirred by what was read off the board. The important thing is whatever it is, it manifested in the statue changing it, bringing it to life. Now at first it couldn't move, you wouldn't be able to either if you spent 40 years in the same position made of stone. Instead it stayed where it had always been, listening, watching. Now one day it learned how to move an left, and went on a journey to learn everything. However one cannot learn everything, as even as you learn more is created to learn. So after a hundred years my ancestor realized how futile his search was. He was growing old and crumbling. So he spent the last year of his life crafting 2 statues. These statues were of children, and when he was done he split his Youkai in two and gave it to his two statues so that they may go out and learn. Thus the cycle has continued. Every time one of us starts to die we create a replacement, or even two if we are strong enough, so that we may learn everything." Ken finished. Tsukune sat there thinking about what he had been told. He knew there would be monsters he couldn't find in his book, or even any book. There was always a new monster being born.

"So why not join the newspaper club." Tsukune asked.

"They were in the midst of a fight with the Public Saftey commission and I'm no good in a serious fight. Besides here I can make a difference, and make some money while I'm at it." The monster said smiling.

"But I thought you said you were in it for the knowledge." Tsukune said raising his eyebrows and smirking at the being.

"Ah but knowledge comes in many forms many of them in the form of an experience, and some of it must be bought." Ken said sagely.

"You sound like your talking about the knowledge of a happy ending." Tsukune said trying to hold in his laugh.

"You would be correct that would be knowledge, but not anything I know. Maybe one day I may feel the urge but right now I have my hands full learning about Youkai Gakuen." Ken said barking with laughter. "My twin, the statue that my mother made along with me is obsessed with book knowledge. She is at some university already, stowed away in a library reading every book I'm sure. We all get something from our ancestors, I guess I got the part that was curious about the mysteries people find. The answer at the end of a case is what I enjoy most."

"I thought you said it took a powerful monster to make two statues? Wouldn't that mean your kind of strong too." Tsukune asked confusedly.

"It doesn't. Some monsters get their Youkai, their strength, from their genetics. Your friend Moka gets it from the blood she drinks. Werewolves get it from the waxing and waning of the moon. Some monsters get it from seasons, or temperatures, or actions. Some get it from others and some grow into their power. My race though, our power comes form our knowledge, from what we learn on our journey. I'm only 17. We live about a 100 years. I have enough time to learn all I need to." Ken answered. Tsukune nodded.

"What does your monster form look like?" Tsukune asked.

"Everyone of us is different. Some are statues of real people our creators see. Some are influenced by the art of whatever country our creator loves most. My Mother was in China for most of her life. I am a Terracotta soldier." Ken said proudly. It began to look like stone was crawling across his skin as he dropped his human form. Sure enough Tsukune found a real life Terracotta soldier like the one he had seen back home in the museum standing before him. The only difference was it was moving.

"I thought you said your creator dies when they give you their energy. How do you know about her?" Tsukune said confused.

"In here." Ken answered tapping his head. "I have no memories of her, no knowledge, but when I think of who she was, I know."

"Do you ever wish you could have met her. Did you ever see her?" Tsukune asked quickly rattling off all the questions going through his head.

"No. It took about a month for the energy she gave us fully woke us up. By then even the dust she had crumbled into at our conception had blown away. I can guess what she looked like though. While my form was influenced by Chinese culture, my sister was not. She was created to look like the daughter my mother always wanted. She looks like my mother would I believe." Ken answered shifting back.

"Oh." Tsukune said sitting back to think about everything he had just learned. Ken didn't give him much time though.

"Alright then there isn't much to do right now since we don't have any cases. How about I teach you some martial arts to keep you alive long enough to make you into a world class detective" Ken said smiling as he took his hat off and walked outside, leaving Tsukune alone in the room. After a moment he shook out of his thoughts and rushed after his Captain.

Tsukune leaned against the gates to the school waiting for Moka. His training had gone rather well, at least he thought it did. Other than the physical training of course. Ken was teaching him several basic maneuvers that would aid him in throwing a much stronger enemy off balance, and escaping or allowing himself time to come up with a plan. Needless to say Tsukune was very sore after a couple of throws and other moves used to break his balance. Tsukune had winced when he saw Ken pull out a cylinder made of metal about the size of a ruler, and extended it into a staff. The living statue had only laughed and leaned on his staff before telling him that staff work wouldn't happen for awhile.

What had come next had been much more fun, but also much tougher than what the human had been doing before. Ken asked Tsukune questions. Sometimes the questions were open, like asking what Tsukune saw. The Detective would listen to what the human had to say before applauding him for some of the more specific and seemingly minute observations. Then he would point out a million things that Tsukune hadn't even begun to realize, and how they may be important. Some of the questions were rapid fire trying to get Tsukune to prioritize what was needed in the moment as he often would if caught in a fight. Other times it was memory games. Asking what color a students hair had been, or what type of bag they had when they walked by several minutes earlier. He was asked to describe people several minutes after they walked by the hill he and Ken sat on, or people he hadn't seen in hours. Moka, his teacher, some of his fellow students, Saizou.

While they did their exercises Tsukune began to finally realize what it truly meant to be observant. It was one thing to see things, it was another to understand everything he saw. Things he hadn't even considered worth his notice were made important and things he had were made useful. A slight limp of a student meant a weakness, and even then the slight difference in a limp could mean the weakness was a knee injury rather than an ankle. Recognizing a student that seemed insignificant in the background of a chaotic environment could mean realizing someone was following you. Everything was important to Ken. Slowly Tsukune realized what it meant to be Ken. His race wasn't just after knowledge in a book. They saw, heard, smelled, tasted, felt, and remembered everything. That was why they would never stop, because each one saw something different from another. Even the exact same experience for two living statues would mean differences in knowledge. After a few hours the two had split up promising to meet the next day. Tsukune had gone to wait for his friend to get out of her club meeting.

Tsukune looked at his watch and saw that it was the end of the school day, lunch had been earlier in order to give the clubs a good amount of time to meet for the first time and get things settled, while giving the undecided teens time to wander into clubs they had looked at earlier until they found the one they wanted. When Tsukune looked up he noticed Moka walking towards him with a guy, his arm across her shoulders. He started to feel a little cross but calmed himself, everything he learned from Ken running through his mind. At second glance she seemed extremely giddy, but not at all noticing the older boy's attention. Instead she was focused solely on Tsukune. This made the boy scowl. Apparently he wasn't used to inattention from females, or rivals.

"Hi Tsukune. Gin this is my friend Tsukune. Tsukune this is Gin." She said stepping out from the arm around her shoulder to gesture to Tsukune. Through the whole introduction she only looked at Gin when she gestured towards him to say his name. Gin however was looking agitated by the girls actions and the fact that Tsukune seemed to be the focus of the introduction, making Tsukune smile. Gin stepped up and put his arm back around her shoulder and held out his hand.

"Hi Tsukune. I'm Gin, Moka's new friend, and her Club Captain." The boy said smiling wickedly at the thought of being in the same club as her. Tsukune knew that Gin was thinking that his age and his being in her club would give him leverage on him. He shook his hand and smiled a similar smile.

"Hi Gin I'm Tsukune. I'm Moka's friend. I'm glad she was able to find an upperclassman willing to mentor her. I will make sure to support Moka to my full ability so that she may perform her best for the Newspaper." Tsukune said not only making his age and position look more like a platonic relationship but also interjecting himself as not only having first claim, but also as being much more important to her. Not to mention all of it was done in a way that made it look like he was trying to help Moka. Gin's smile slipped a bit. Especially when he saw Moka blush at the thought of getting to suck Tsukune's blood. The upperclassman obviously thought it had something to do with intimacy between the two. He looked between the two trying to figure them out. Tsukune didn't give him the time.

"Well Gin we should get going I'm sure that with the full moon soon you would like to get everything out of the way so you have an open schedule." Tsukune said cutting Gin off completely as he lost his game in the face of Tsukune's knowledge.

"What?" Moka said confuded.

"How did you know?" Gin asked gaping at the younger boy. The Werewolf was sure he was one of the few people on campus that was able to keep his form hidden almost perfectly. Not only that but not many students knew his form so Tsukune couldn't have heard rumors especially this quickly.

"Well for one you smell a bit like Dog." Tsukune said smiling wolfishly.

"It is true. I didn't want to say anything but I would suggest some shampoo in your true form." Moka said looking down and blushing as she stepped out from under his arm and into Tsukune's. Gin grew red as Tsukune officially closed the door to Moka on Gin's face in one swift stroke.

"Second your gait, you are ready to transform at any moment so you walk in such a way that the transformation to an animal wouldn't affect your movement for even a single second, and your full of energy with the Full moon approaching. But I think the best give away is that you have a wolf pendant." Tsukune said pointing to the necklace around his neck. "Come along Moka we should head out."

Gin was left staring at them as Tsukune offered his arm to Moka and the two walked towards the dorms. Tsukune however felt like a predator, even after having gone up against an alpha male deemed miles above Tsukune on the food chain. He listened to Moka go on about her new friends and the new club. When they finally parted ways Tsukune walked the rest of the way back thinking about everything he had done that day. Maybe there was something to this observation thing.

Alright now this is the part where you Review. What do you think about the idea behind this story. It is going to evolve a bit along with Tsukune. I even have an idea for after school. I could maybe make this into a three story idea. As for the quote at the beginning I wasn't planning on anyone reading TOO much into it but it is a bit of foreshadowing, it was more about Tsukune reading the monster book but it has some allusion to it.